Solazyme (San Francisco, CA) a development-stage synthetic biology company focused on algal biodiesel and industrial chemicals, closed a $52M Series D financing. Participants include Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Braemar Energy Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Roda Group, Harris and Harris Group, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Zygote Ventures, Chevron Technology Venture Investments and San-Ei Gen.

Green Biologics (United Kingdom) a development-stage biotechnology fermentation company focused on bio-butanol for biochemicals and biofuels, closed a $6.1M Series B financing. Participants include Capricorn Venture Partners, Morningside Ventures, Carbon Trust Investment Limited and Oxford Capital Partners.

Coskata (Warrenville, IL) a development-stage bacterial fermentation biofuels company closed a $23.7M Series D financing. Participants include Total, Blackstone Group, Advanced Technology Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, General Motors, GreatPoint Ventures and Khosla Ventures.

Virent Energy Systems (Madison, WI) a development-stage biofuels company focused on catalytically transforming soluble biomass into hydrocarbons, closed a $46.4M Series C financing. Participants include Shell and Cargill Ventures.

Amyris Biotechnologies (Emeryville, CA) a development-stage biofuels company focused on metabolic pathway transformations of plant-based feedstocks into different isoprenoids, closed a $47.8M Series D financing. Participants include Temasek Holdings.

Joule Biotechnologies (Cambridge, MA) a development stage company focused on the conversion of carbon dioxide into ethanol, closed a $30M Series B financing. Participants include Flagship Ventures.

EdenIQ (Visalia, CA) a commercial-stage biofuel company focused on lignocellulosic material to boost ethanol yields from corn and sugarcane, closed a $12.4M Series B financing. Participants include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Westly Group, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Cyrus Capital Partners, Angeleno Group, Element Partners, Morgan Stanley, Advanced Equities, Omninet and Nimes Capital.

Genomatica (San Diego, CA) a development-stage biofuel company focused on methods for adaptive evolution of microbes to achieve optimal performance under process conditions to produce industrial chemicals from carbohydrates, closed a $15M Series C financing. Participants include TPG Biotech, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Alloy Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Aurora Biofuels (Alameda, CA) a development-stage biofuels company leveraging a rapid and high yield algae production, closed a $15M Series C financing. Participants include Oak Investment Partners, Gabriel Venture Partners and Noventi Ventures.

LS9 (San Carlos, CA) a development-stage biofuels company focused on synthetic biology fermentation approach to convert renewable feedstocks to petroleum equivalents, closed a $25M Series C financing. Participants include CTTV Investments, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Flagship Ventures and Khosla Ventures.